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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
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Technique, medicalization and virtualization of the body

Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2010
This paper discusses on the technique as something unique to humans, as a first expressed memory, as a human millieu that serves as a determinant of the corporal confrontation of reality or “work”.
Jorge Márquez Valderrama
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 709-721, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
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ANATOMY LESSONS: TRANS LIFE BETWEEN PORTRAITURE AND PERFORMANCE IN PAUL B. PRECIADO'S ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (2023)

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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The Medarchy: Medical Discipline and the Panopticon in Caduceus Wild

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
This article explores the paradoxical nature of biopower when social, political and economic interests clash with individuality and autonomy. Special emphasis is placed on the Foucauldian concept of the panopticon to examine the mechanisms of (self ...
Shadia Abdel-Rahman Téllez
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 494-515, June 2026.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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“A Minimum of Domination”—The Overt Normative Orientation of Foucault's Work

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 736-759, June 2026.
Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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Small modular biopower systems [PDF]

, 2000
Biomass is a proven option for electricity generation. A diverse range of biopower producers includes electric utilities, independent power producers, and the pulp and paper industry.
Shepherd, P.
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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The Weight Attached to Dieting: Health, Beauty and Morality in Sweden from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day [PDF]

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences, 2019
Over the last hundred years a new ideal body norm has been established. We should be thin, or at least strive to be. Consequently, dieting has become a topical subject.
Pia Lundquist Wanneberg
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